The Night Brother Harry Dropped In

One evening in 1948, MWB Harry Truman, President of the United States, evaded his entourage, the press and some of his Secret Service agents to attend the raising of a brother.  These two videos tell the story:

The Great Moon Hoax of 1835

Long before Percival Lowell claimed to have discovered evidence of civilization on Mars, or before Orson Wells frightened the country with a mock Martian invasion, legitimate scientists in the 1830s were concocting extravigant claims of the possibility of a civilization on the moon.  In response to what he felt were the ridiculous claims, Brother Richard A. Locke (Benevolent Lodge 28, New York) fabricated a story about the discovery of lunar inhabitants so plausable many scientists of the day endorsed it.  Using the name "Sir John Herschel," Locke published the "discovery" in a series of articles in the New York Sun (where he was a reporter) in 1835, causing a national sensation.  He let the story linger for six weeks before revealing it was a satiric way of ridiculing the outlandish "scientific" claims of his day, amidst charges he had only written the series of articles to increase circulation.